Top 1200 Christian Unity Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

In two areas above all others the Christian demonstration of love and communication stands clear: in the area of the Christian couple and their children; and in the personal relationships of Christians in the church. If there is no demonstration in these two places, on the personal level, the world can conclude that orthodox Christian doctrine is nothing but dead, cold words.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

There's a lot of real unity - and a lot fake unity, sadly. I think a lot of people are going to get an opportunity to pursue greatness and pursue careers outside of D.C. Not everybody is going to make it. I think there's a connotation that there's a lack of rappers out there.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

The dirty little secret is that you, Barack Obama, are the candidate of 'unity.' If you are the candidate of unity, why can't you even bring your own party together? Why can't you and Hillary Clinton get together and solve this, instead of having Operation Chaos prolong all of this disunity? I mean, these people are starting to tear each other apart.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam. Today every Christian has an opportunity and obligation to present the gospel effectively and in Christian love to the Muslims who have permeated our Western society. When your neighbor, your mechanic, your favorite basketball player, your employer or employee, or even your children's friends could very well be Muslims, the need for proper understanding and an effective Christian witness is abundantly clear.

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us use has contributed to the crisis in Christianity in North America. Traditional Christian language is becoming less familiar to millions of people. The language is frequently misunderstood by people.

I want people to know that LeCrae the person is a Christian. Just because you put a tag on me or my music that doesn't make me or the music more or less of a Christian. I'd hope the legacy that I'd leave that people say... No, he's not a Christian because he said he was or because his stuff was labeled that. He's a Christian because he lived it! And when you know him and you know his life this is someone whose life is marked by Jesus.

Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ, None of us has? The Christian is one who has found the right road.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Every Christian is a sent one. There is no such thing as an unsent Christian.

To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

I am not a "Christian author." I am an author who is a Christian. While my books reflect my faith, they are not intended as teaching tools for a Christian audience per se. My books are stories created around principles that work for everyone and they work every time.

To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

If the Christian does not know when God is speaking, he is in trouble at the heart of his Christian life!

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

Every Christian needs to be informed, every Christian needs to register and every Christian should absolutely vote.

I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality - it's just a different morality than the loud voices of the Christian morality.... I can't tell you how many films I've turned down because there was an absence of morality. And I don't mean that from any sort of Judeo-Christian-Muslim point of view. I'm not saying they're wrong and can't be made. But, fundamentally, I'm such a humanist that I can't bear to make films that make us feel humanity is more dark than it is light.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.

To me music is music. A person of faith, a person that calls themselves a Christian, they are the Christian and they make music. Some music has more to do about God than other music, but in reality what makes the difference between "secular" and "Christian" music is simply a marketing channel.

I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you.

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.